Bonjour! My name is David! Welcome! Follow me on In this lesson you will learn a really easy way of expressing something that you want to do. The grammar construction is: Avoir envie de + verb in the infinitive form (that means a verb in its mother form such as parler or ‘to speak’).
Practice Phrases
Martin a envie d’aller à la plage.
Martin wants to go to the beach.
Explanation: In this situaiton you write “d’” rather than the word “de” because the verb, aller, begins with a voyel. If you said “de aller” it would sound funny to the French ear.
J’ai envie de manger.
I want to eat.
Qu’est-ce que tu a envie de faire?
What do you want to do?
As-tu envie de rester ici?
Do you want to stay here?
Explanation: In this situation as-tu is simply tu as (you have inverted). When you invert “tu as” you form a question: “Do you have?” You could also replace as-tu with, “est-ce que tu as…?”
Elles ont envie d’aller à la fête.
They want to go to the party.
Explanation: This is a sentences which really makes you work on your liasions. French people do not like the sound of linking to vowels together without a liasion. So, between “Elles and ont” you need to sound out the S on “Elles” into a “Z” sound. Then, between “ont” and “envie” you need to pronounce that “T” because envie starts with a vowel.
Désolé, je n’ai pas envie de faire ça.
Sorry, I don’t want to do that.
Explanation: You can also make “avoir envie de” into the negative by saying, “ne + avoir conjugated” + pas + envie de + verb.
Il a envie de jouer au tennis.
He wants to play tennis.
Avez-vous envie de nager?
Do you want to swim?
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